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“There is a very small chance that you might be really brilliant and really talented.”

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Jon Gordon is a renowned consultant specializing in leadership and team building. His work spans across various industries, helping organizations and individuals enhance performance and well-being. more

“There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to grow and evolve and go find those folks and be around them and carry it on... carrying the tradition on in the way with what it is that you have to offer. Find some good people in the music that will believe in you and they'll help you do that.”

People Way Want Believe Helping Grows Offers Tradition Folks Evolve Good People Believe In You

Author:Jon Gordon

“I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.”

Knows Art Parent Born Cities Very Good Kansas Missouri Kansas City

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.”

Ifs Art School Courses Childhood Taught Painting Involved Drawing Drawing And Painting

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.”

Wells Art School High School My Family Moved Painter Chicago Institute

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.”

Art School Class Painting Areas Drawing Chicago Institute

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years, and when I came back, I tried to get into the painting classes which I wanted, but because of all the returned GIs [the GI Bill], everyone was in school and the classes were all full. So I looked at the catalogue and found that there was a ceramic class offered and that there was space in that. I registered for a ceramic class and some drawing classes.”

Years Wanted School Three Found Space Class Gone Middle Painting Army Bills Drawing Three Years Catalogues Gis Ceramics

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with clay.”

Knows Should Years Art Class Conditions Years Ago Very Good This Day Chicago Clay Scholarship Institute Ceramics

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.”

Want Persons Care Realizing Caring Possessive

Author:Salman Khan

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